India, Bangladesh DG-level border talks in Dhaka next month

India and Bangladesh will maintain their bi-annual DG-level border talks in Dhaka subsequent month to debate points associated to curbing a wide range of cross-frontier crimes and measures to create higher coordination between their safety forces and businesses, official sources stated on Thursday. A delegation led by Border Safety Pressure (BSF) Director Basic Nitin Agrawal is slated to journey to Bangladesh for the assembly to be held between March 5-9, the sources instructed PTI.

This would be the 54th version of the talks between the BSF and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

The discussions can be held on the BGB headquarters in Dhaka’s Pilkhana. BGB DG Maj Gen Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui will lead the Bangladeshi delegation. The talks will embody officers from residence and exterior affairs ministries, and anti-narcotics and different businesses of the 2 nations, they stated.

Each side are anticipated to deliberate on a lot of points associated to frame administration like taking steps to cease incidents of assault and assaults on BSF personnel and civilians by Bangladeshi criminals, collectively checking crimes like smuggling of products and pretend Indian forex alongside this entrance, enhancing the coordinated border administration plan (CBMP) and checking unlawful development actions alongside the border fence, amongst different issues, a senior Union residence ministry officer stated.

The BSF guards the 4,096-km-long Indian entrance with Bangladesh on the nation’s japanese facet. The DG-level border talks have been held yearly between 1975 and 1992 however they have been made bi-annual in 1993 with both facet alternatively travelling to the nationwide capitals of New Delhi and Dhaka. The final talks have been held in Delhi in June 2023.

The officer stated the relations between the 2 nations and the forces are excellent and this assembly is geared toward enhancing these ties.

In accordance with official knowledge, greater than 3,342 Bangladeshi nationals have been apprehended by the BSF alongside the border in 2023, the very best quantity in during the last six years.

A complete of 77 BSF personnel have been injured in assaults by Bangladeshi and Indian miscreants final yr as in comparison with 43 and 64 such incidents in 2022 and 2021 respectively, the info confirmed.